TY  - JOUR
A1  - Vitecek, Simon
A1  - Kučinić, Mladen
A1  - Previšić, Ana
A1  - Živić, Ivana
A1  - Stojanović, Katarina
A1  - Keresztes, Lujza
A1  - Bálint, Miklós
A1  - Hoppeler, Felicitas
A1  - Waringer, Johann
A1  - Graf, Wolfram
A1  - Pauls, Steffen U.
T1  - Integrative taxonomy by molecular species delimitation : multi-locus data corroborate a new species of Balkan Drusinae micro-endemics
T2  - BMC evolutionary biology
N2  - Background: Taxonomy offers precise species identification and delimitation and thus provides basic information for biological research, e.g. through assessment of species richness. The importance of molecular taxonomy, i.e., the identification and delimitation of taxa based on molecular markers, has increased in the past decade. Recently developed exploratory tools now allow estimating species-level diversity in multi-locus molecular datasets.
Results: Here we use molecular species delimitation tools that either quantify differences in intra- and interspecific variability of loci, or divergence times within and between species, or perform coalescent species tree inference to estimate species-level entities in molecular genetic datasets. We benchmark results from these methods against 14 morphologically readily differentiable species of a well-defined subgroup of the diverse Drusinae subfamily (Trichoptera, Limnephilidae). Using a 3798 bp (6 loci) molecular data set we aim to corroborate a geographically isolated new species by integrating comparative morphological studies and molecular taxonomy.
Conclusions: Our results indicate that only multi-locus species delimitation provides taxonomically relevant information. The data further corroborate the new species Drusus zivici sp. nov. We provide differential diagnostic characters and describe the male, female and larva of this new species and discuss diversity patterns of Drusinae in the Balkans. We further discuss potential and significance of molecular species delimitation. Finally we argue that enhancing collaborative integrative taxonomy will accelerate assessment of global diversity and completion of reference libraries for applied fields, e.g., conservation and biomonitoring.
KW  - Genetics
KW  - Phylogenetics
KW  - Trichoptera
KW  - Identification
KW  - New species
KW  - STACEY
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/44718
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-447182
SN  - 1471-2148
N1  - © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated
VL  - 17
IS  - 1, Art. 129
SP  - 1
EP  - 18
PB  - BioMed Central ; Springer
CY  - London ; Berlin ; Heidelberg
ER  -